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//*************************************************************************
//**  Included in JDMB 1.0 port to SharpDBM;  11/2013 Cyrus Neah cneah@codingreal.com
//**  SharpDBM is an independent reimplementation of the JDBM 1.0 software library in C#  
//*************************************************************************

namespace SharpDBM.helper
{


///
// * Browser to traverse a collection of tuples.  The browser allows for
// * forward and reverse order traversal.
// *
// * @author <a href="mailto:boisvert@intalio.com">Alex Boisvert</a>
// * @version $Id: TupleBrowser.java,v 1.2 2001/05/19 14:02:00 boisvert Exp $
// 
	public abstract class TupleBrowser
	{

//    *
//     * Get the next tuple.
//     *
//     * @param tuple Tuple into which values are copied.
//     * @return True if values have been copied in tuple, or false if there is
//     *         no next tuple.
//     
		public abstract bool getNext(Tuple tuple);


//    *
//     * Get the previous tuple.
//     *
//     * @param tuple Tuple into which values are copied.
//     * @return True if values have been copied in tuple, or false if there is
//     *         no previous tuple.
//     
		public abstract bool getPrevious(Tuple tuple);

	}

}